Utah TerritoryACTS, RESOLUTIONS AND MEMORIALS, PASSED AT THE SEVERAL ANNUAL SESSIONS OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF THE TERRITORY OF UTAH.; To which is prefixed: The Declaration of Independence, the Articles of the Confederation, the Ordinance of 1787, the Constitution of the United States, and Amendments thereto, the Naturalization Laws, the Constitution of the Provisional State of Deseret, the Deseret Laws, and the Organic Act of Utah. Published by virtue of an Act approved Jan. 19, 1855 Great Salt Lake City: Joseph Cain, Public Printer, 1855. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 460pp, errata slip at p. 455. Bound in later tan buckram over heavy boards, red and black spine labels, gilt lettering. 8" x 6" Contains acts and laws of Deseret, 1850-1855, while Brigham Young was Governor of the State of Deseret. Topics of laws (with punishments) include: gambling; gunpowder; kidnapping; lewdness; enticing a female to house of ill fame; &c. Also covered are many non-criminal activities such as: free schools; roads and bridges; ferries; cutting timber; land and water grants for Brigham Young, &c. [Flake, Mormon Bibliography, 9384d. McMurtrie, Beginning of Printing in Utah, 27. Eberstadt 138:674.].

A. & L. Buddee's entire stock of wines, liquors, cigars, fruits, fancy candies, &c. ... will be sold at cost!!! On or before the first day of November next to make room for a larger and entirely new stock.. Quincy, Ill: Quincy Herald Steam Press, 1855. Approx. 21Â¼" x 13Â½" printed in wood and metal types; right margin irregularly cut, top left corner with short tear, else very good. Not found in OCLC or Byrd, Illinois Imprints. Likely unrecorded.

Smith, John CalvinThe Western Tourist and Emigrant's Guide Through the States of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, and Wisconsin, and the Territories of Minesota [sic], Missouri, and Nebraska. . . New York: J. H. Colton and Company, 1855. Hard Cover. Very Good. 16mo. Title continued: "Being an Accurate and Concise Description of Each State and Territory; and Containing The Routes and Distances on the Great Lines of Travel. Accompanied with a Large and Minute map, Exhibiting the Township Lines of the United States' Surveys, the Boundaries of Counties, and the Position of Cities, Villages, and Settlements, Etc. Etc." Complete. 89 pages plus 35-page catalog at rear. Map present and firmly attached. Tight binding with sound hinges. Clean pages with an occasion finger smudge. Some minor foxing at edge of text block. Owner's info inside front cover. Ink note on the front free endpaper, "Map Exhibiting the Section of Railroad Centering at Milwaukee with the connections with the East & the great Northern Road - Milwaukee Sentinel Extra." The map (approximately 26" x 21") by Smith is in nice shape; bright and colorful; missing a 1" triangular piece at right border. Cover has some minor wear and soiling. Gilt debossed title and decoration is somewhat faded but still legible.

MacGillivray, William.The Natural History of Deeside and Braemar. Privately published. 1855 - Hardcover, professionally rebacked, original red superior cloth covered boards with blind stamped decoration, new end papers, some slight foxing throughout, internal hinges repaired but exposed, gilt royal insignia and titles, some shelfwear, slight edgewear to corners, some annotations written neatly in margins highlighting some lost place names in the Deeside area, but otherwise in Very Good condition. First edition, presentation copy gifted to Mr. J. Price by H.R.H. Prince Albert with presentation plate and note requesting a letter to confirm the book had arrived , pp xx, 507, 13 b&w illustrations + frontispiece, one coloured fold out map and one uncoloured fold out map to rear, index. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

TAKAYUKI, Tsuji.TSU JOH SHOKUBUTSU: DICTIONARY OF COMMON JAPANESE PLANTS. A Dictionary of Useful [Tokyo 1855 Fukyu Sha]. Blue stitched wrs., covers soiled,. contents very clean, title slip half gone, 58 double folded. leaves, 105 b.w. woodcut illustrations, hand printed on hand. made Washi paper, 15 x 22 cm., Japanese text. FIRST EDITION. AN ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY OF JAPANESE BOTANY This botanical treatise was sanctioned by the Japanese Ministry of Education for disemination of knowledge to the public. It contains illustrations of grains, legumes, leafy, onion types, rooted plants, tubers, melons, edible bulbs, cucumbers, eggplants, various kinds of mushrooms, pit fruits, citrus, berries and nuts, hemp [cannibus satavia], connifers, bamboo, subtropicals, and other trees and plants which have edible parts. * The work was nicely drawn, each plant is named and text about its attributes, uses, and cultivation methods. About one-third of each page is illustrated, the balance below is the text. * CONDITION: The work has the former owner's name on the cover, with mild rubbing to the edges. There is the usual minor thumbing and dusty. Else a nice example. * Color scans can be sent by email. Images displayed may not always be the exact photo of the copy in stock for sale at any given time. If you want to see the exact image of the book or edition in stock today, please request this by email. . Photos of most of our books are posted to our .

HOFFMANN, Heinrich.:THE ENGLISH STRUWWELPETER or Pretty Stories and Funny Picturers for Litttle Children. London, Friedrich Volckmar, Leipsic (sic) & the Agency of the German Literary Society, pre 1855. FOURTH ENGLISH EDITION after the 14th German edition pre 1855, small 4to, 245 x 200 mm, 9½ x 7¾ inches, original buff (or cream?) card covers, decorative border to covers, vignette on lower cover, lettered only on upper cover. Pages mounted on linen by an early owner, 24 pages of hand coloured illustrations following the original edition (Peter's hair hangs down over his face). Expertly rebacked at some time in matching paper, new free endpapers, corners worn, covers rubbed and slightly soiled, lower cover with diagonal crease and crack to surface paper, edges of covers worn with chipping to surface paper (maximum 10 mm, ½"). Margins darkened, well thumbed and slightly foxed, occasional very slight soiling, occasional very slight smudging of colour, possibly a little water - colour added to last 2 pages. Acceptable copy of scarce early edition. After about 1859 the illustrations show Struwwelpeter with a mop of wavy hair, none of it over his face, as found in the English reprints of today. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

SAGRA, R. DE LA.Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural de la Isla de Cuba. Segunda Parte. Historia natural: Tomo XII. ATLAS DE BOTANICA. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1855. Folio (390 x 260mm). With 122 engraved plates of which 20 hand-coloured. Later half cloth, with old gilt lettered labels, marbled sides. The complete botanical atlas of this monumental work on the history of Cuba. It is the first great survey of the botany of Cuba. Ramon de Sagra (1798-1871) was Spanish botanist, director of a botanical garden at Havana and professor of botany. One plate with small loss of illustration and apart from 4 browned plates a very clean copy. Paper repair to right upper corner of title.//Stafleu & Cowan 10000; Nissen BBI, 1712.

Imray, James:CHART OF THE NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN, EXHIBITING THE EASTERN SHORES OF ASIA AND THE WESTERN COAST OF NORTH AMERICA, FROM THE EQUATOR TO BEHRING'S STRAIT WITH PLANS, ON AN ENLARGED SCALE OF THE PRINCIPAL ISLANDS AND HARBOURS [caption title]. London: James Imray & Son, 1855. - Engraved map, 39 x 74 inches. Backed with linen. Several manuscript pencil plot lines. Lightly tanned, with a few wrinkled areas. Very good. A massive "blue back" sea chart of the North Pacific encompassing both Asian and American coastlines, produced by one of the leading private British publishers of sea charts in the mid-19th century, James Imray. The map depicts the Pacific Rim from Borneo and the Philippines north to the Bering Strait, and thence the western coast of the Americans south to present day Colombia and the Galapagos Islands. It also accurately shows major and minor Pacific islands, including those in the Marian, Caroline, and Marshall chains, the Sandwich Islands (modern Hawaii), and many other isolated islands that were crucial waypoints for the navigation of the Pacific Ocean. In the upper right quadrant of the chart are six insets showing important islands and harbors in detail: The Philippine, Marian, and Sandwich Islands, as well as San Francisco, Victoria, and the Awatska Bay in Kamchatka, and across the Pacific Ocean are plotted several key great circle routes, from San Francisco to China and the Sandwich Islands, and from the Sandwich Islands to Hong Kong and Colombia. The purpose of such a large map was for the convenience of a ship's navigator, who had to track a ship's position over the course of a long journey, as evidenced by the manuscript plot lines in this copy. During this period, Imray was fast becoming the principal private supplier of sea charts to the merchant ships of Great Britain. His popularity was due in large part to the production of charts such as this one, which provided new and essential basic guides to areas of the Pacific beginning to be frequented more heavily by private British traders. "Salesmanship and prolific output alone would not have brought success unless the quality of the product had been right. In achieving this Imray had an advantage over earlier generations of commercial chart publishers, who faced a continual problem acquiring adequate hydragraphic information for their charts. By Imray's time accurate new survey material was fast becoming available for all parts of the world.His contribution was to present the material in a convenient and familiar form for the merchant ship navigator. This had changed little over the years and Imray retained the well-tried format of a small-scale chart covering as much as possible of the sea passage for a particular trade, with numerous large-scale plans of ports" - Fisher. Rare, with OCLC recording only one copy, at Brown University, and not in the British Library. FISHER, THE MAKERS OF THE BLUEBACK CHARTS, p.39. OCLC 549596970.